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SQUEEZE AS A HIGH ART.

SCHEME TO FORCE CHINESE RESIDENTS IN THE

SETTLEMENTS TO PAY SPECIAL TAX TO NANKING,

FAMILIAR METHOD OF RAISING MONEY.

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Commission and receipts shall b delivered upon payment thereof. such receipts to be acknowledged and accepted by landlords and houseowners in lieu of two months rent rent receipts shall be handed to tenants upon produétion of the tax receipts by tenants..

In addition to the already harsh taxation system introduced by the so-called Nationalist. Government And the tobareu monopoly which was exposed in the North-China Daily News, says last. Friday's' issue of our Shanghai contemporary, an- 4-That any person or persons other moneymaking 'scheme of the found preventing tenants from pay- Nanking administration has beening their rents for two months to the said Commission in lieu of the brought to our notice, This calls tax and/or tenants themselves who for the collection of a special house decline to abide by these regula- tions shall be subject to punishment. tax, the amount of which shall be

of not less than one month or more equivalent to two months' rent on than six months in prison and a

all houses, for the prosecution al fine of not less than $50 or more the Anti-Northern Punitive Expedithan. $1500. tinti, irrespective of whether houses may be in the International Settle- ment, the French Concession or Chi- nese territory.

At a meeting of the Shangbai Special Branch, of the Kuomintang, which was held on Wednesday after noon under the chairmanship of Mr. Chen Te Ching, chairman of the Propaganda Department, the follow-. ing regulations relating to the pro-

We are remaining here for a short season longer.posed taxation were adopted:

ISAKO'S CIRCUS

NEW RECLAMATION GROUND

PRAYA EAST, WANCHAI

TO-NIGHT

PRICES OF ADMISSION REDUCED

Box 6 Persons......$12. Single Box Seat.. $2. 1st Class Chairs ...$ 1.

Gallery

MATINEE:

EVERY

,50 cts.

Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday,

at 4 p.m.

CHILDREN HALF PRICE.

COME AND SEE

THE CIRCUS POST CARRIER PIGEONS.

At.every.

In commemoration of the visit of ISAKO'S CIRCUS to Hong Kong, free prizes will be given away. performance, our carrier pigeons will be let off in the centre of the ring and the persons on whom they alight will be the recipients of the following gifts:-

GOLD WATCHES, RINGS, BRACELETS.

AND MANY OTHER VALUABLE AND USEFUL ARTICLES.

Cut and bring this slip to the circus ticket office and you will obtain your ticket at a special rate from 30 ets.. up.

found in the net of inciting other 5. That any tenant or tenants

tonants not to pay this tax or call ing to his or their assistance for eigners enjoying extraterritorial with a view to publicly privileges obstructing the approach of autho rized tax collectors and to escaping payment of this tax shall be subject to punishment in the fifth degree (from two months' to one year's im prisonment) in accordance with the law, a fine or not less than $100 or more than $1,000 and deprivation or his or their civil rights.

Designs On Property,

That all houses in Shanghai, 0That warrants shall be issued including those in the International for the arrest of tenants or land- Settlement and the French Conces lords who purposely attenuet to sion, irrespective of whether they escape payment of this tax and that be occupied by the owners them their movable and immovable pan- selves or rented to other people,perties shall be confiscated. shall be subject to a special tax, which shall be the equivalent of two months' rent, and that the proceeds

of such tax shall be contributed to the Treasury of the National Gov- ernment; shonid the total amount of the rent tax so collected in single instances amount to a sum not ex- eceding $80, such sum may revert to the tax-payer upon applivation.

7.--That tenatits failing to answer be deprived of their civil rights; warrants issued against them shall

8.That tenants or landlords found guilty of the above-mentioned crimes, severally or consecutively, shall be dealt with and punished as counter-revolutionaries.

taxes

9. That tax-collectors of the Instructions To Law Courts. Shanghai Nationalist Financial Com- 2.That in the event of landlords mission found guilty of misappro and house-owners failing to recog priating rents collected as hise or meet this tax, orders shall shall be dealt with in accordance be given to the different law courts, with the laws governing abuses in including the Shanghai Special Pro- public office provided for in the Pro- visional Court, the Shanghai Dis-visional Criminal Code and they trict Court, and the French Mixed shall be punished in accordance with Court, to reject all applications filed the said laws, in addition to which for rents that may be in arrears they shall be punished according to and owing to landlords and house an additional degree of punishment. holders, within, one year from date of the imposition of the aforesaid

tax.

10.That landlords and house owners who approve of this tax on their own ititintive and who assist in its collection for the Nationalist

3. That the tax equivalent to two months rent shall be payable Government shall be rewarded in by the tenants themselves to the proportion with the amounts.collect Shanghai Nationalist Financial | ed.

TOBACCO WORKERSİ

OF KWANGSI.

UNION FORMED BY EM-

·PLOYEES IN WUCHOW.

THE USUAL TYPE OF. DECLARATION..

As the procession passed along the streets, small hand bills were given out to the passers by, which read as follows:

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"Many have publicly expressed a willingnees to assist us in obtaining our desires. The labouring classes appreciate the care which at the present time the Government takes

th,

1927.

-IN RESPONSE

THE UNIVERSAL DEMAND

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BRITISH RIGHTS AT HANKOW.

DEPUTATION. TO THE FOREIGN SECRETARY,

QUESTION OF RE-OCOUPA TION.

A deputation of the China Committee waited upon Bir Austen

in our welfare and if we do not Chamberlain on May 30th and put arise at this opportune momcat and before him their views on the unitedly follow our leaders, and

press forward to the fight in the British interests and valuable pro- battle line of the Nationalist Party, perty at Hankow. then there will be absolutely no hope that our day of bitterness will aver colue to an end.

Mr. H. W. Looker, M.P. förl

the following:-

S. E. Essex, introduced a deputation · "What then shall we do? First which included Mr. David Landale Woonow, Kwangsi, June 14th.

let us organize into a Tobacco (Messrs. Matheson & Co., Ltd.), The latest Union to be added to Workers' Union, and this is the who in Lord Southborough's ub-

object we have in view in organiz the long list of labour organizationsing this union to-day.

Since we sence, owing to ill-health, acted as in the city of Wuchow is the have been awakened let us strive to the leader of the deputation, and Tobacco Workers' Union, which benefit the labouring classes.

The Bitterness Of Our Lot, came into being on Sunday, June

Mr. J N. Leefe (chairman of the Lieutenant- 12th, and was impressed upon the|

"The bitterness of our lot may be China Association), thus stated. The whole day long General Sir George Maedonogh, public mind by a street parade, from morning to night our vitality. Mr. Guy Locock and Mr. Jenkins accompanied by a band and vocifer- is wholly absorbed in the work of (representing the Federation of Fous. shouting. There was not a cutting and wrapping up tobacco. British Industries), Sir Robert large crowd in attendance, AIf you reckon the time we work, Waley Cohen (representing the drizzling rain which started to fall it is 10 hours a day. And do we Asiatic Petroleum Co., Ltd.), Sir just as the procession started evi-receive an adequate remuneration Huge Cunliffe-Owen (the British- dently kept the less daring indoors uninitiated even if they were told Newton Stabk (the Hong Kong and for the vitality expended? To the American Tobacco Co., Ltd.), Sir but their long drawn out line of they would hardly believe that the Shanghai Banking Corporation) faithful representatives, dauntlessly braved the storm and had their highest wages we labourers receive Mr. J. 8. Bruc (the Chartered

is from 8 to $10 a month. celebration.

Bank of India, Australia, · and even though we have not had the John Swire and Sons), Sir Alfred Although throughout the year, China), Mr. Warren Swire (Mesars.

ployers, still if they wish to dis Co., Ltd.), Mr. F. Anderson (repre. Mond (Messrs. Brunner, Mond & slightest altercation with our em- charge us at a moment's notice, we sonting the Far Eastern section of "Fellow Labourers i

are forthwith discharged, while our the London Chamber of Commerce), "At the present time we are in employer sucks up our blood and and Mr. E. Manico Gull (secretary the position of a subservient people sweat to the enriching of his own of the China Committee).

by the bands of unequal | purse, bound

How unjust! Ab, the de- The deputation having laid be treaties and the militaary plans con- mons in the 18th department of fore Sir Austen Chamberlain their stantly employed by the militarists. purgatory do not suffer, as do we views on the general situation in But these in themselves are not so tobacco workers. Truly it is bitter. China, and more particularly their dreadful Those which ste moet to If we desire to change our lot let be feared are the many dark and us marshal our forces Organize, terests at. Hankow, Sir Austen anxiety with regard to British in- dangerous methods of oppression then we can do it. Put your Chamberlain in reply gave a full used in Gnuncial matters in the shoulders together."" Enter the exposition of the policy of the naane of civilization which causes ranks of the Nationalists.. Exert Government, its origin and aims. qur China to come behind other your strength to the utmost and be He stated that the Government lations.

willing to sacrifice your lives in the desired to avoid any interference Need For Organized Untona.

fight. Thus only may we gain our in the internal affairs of China, but "It is acknowledged by every-

object.

The Path Of Glory.

they were fully alive to the im body that of all classes of people

portance of the British intereste PRICE: 50 Cts. per bottle those who willingly suffer most are before us.

"Hurrah! The path of glory lies involved. They were determined Let us go forward, to protect the lives of British this fact, ever since the re-organiza- loudly shouting, Down with the im nationals and to secure protection tion of the Nationalist Party: trestics: Overthrow the thieves their property while continuing to perialists: Do away with unequal and fair treatment for them and VICENTE ATIENZA & CO. tradesmen of every crees verely of labour-the running dogs of fim-seek a peaceful and friendly, solu-

class have with organized anions. This has been perialiam: Shorter hours and more tion of all outstanding difficulties done in order genuinely to do away Day: Sustain the Chinese Nation with my authority constituted by with individual bitterness and to list Party.' 'Uphold the Nanking the Chinese themselves, and ablo obtain a little personal gain, and live the Tobacco Workers' Union observance of such

Nationalist Government: Long both to make and to secure the at the same timo strenuously to

♫ friendly oppose our enemies who intimidate

Long live the Chinese Nationalist settlement. Meanwhile, the Govorn and bind us by ways that are dark

Party"-North China Daily nt had taken the precautions and dangerous,

Newe.

(Continuer son nézt Öolumn.)

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required by the present unsettled conditions, and had issued the necessary. Instructions to the British authorities in: China.

EXTRAVAGANT COUNT'S

ROMANCE.

DOCTORS DECLARE HIM SAFE.

BUDAPEST Count Emmerich Degenfold, who has been interned in a mental sana torium for three years, since his marriaga with an actress, Miss Edith Sugar, has besit pronounced of sound mind by a medical com mission and allowed to go with his wife to a castle belonging to Count Emmerich Karolyi. ⠀

Sir Austen Chamberlain's reply is stated to bave created a certain amount of hope that the question of He is one of the richest land a re-occupation of the former owners in Hungary, but has heart British Concession at Hankow is on unfriendly terms with his family being considered. It is recalled because he lived extravagantly. Ho that Sir Austen, in the House of sold land inherited from his father, Commons on May 9th, said the and his brother Paul and his air- Government had ample justification ters feared for the estates of his for re-occupying the Concession, and mother, about 20,000 acres. for regarding the agreement s When he married Mig Sugar cancelled by the Nationalist do they caused him to be examined by ernment's nets. It is now suggest mental exporta, who decldre, him ed that the time has probably come incapable of managing his own that the Governmont egy see fit to affairs. He is new free and inds re-occupy the Concession. Respon-pendent, and has given his family aible elepients in China, it is assurances respecting-the-family- thought, would welcome such a stop. property,